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Kevin Kelley, spokesman of Maine Gov. Janet Mills’ Independent Commission to investigate the facts surrounding the Lewiston shooting, has clarified…
The Maine State Legislative Council voted Thursday to reject a bill proposed by Rep. Joshua Morris (R-Turner) that would have…
This week for the first time in U.S. history, the cost of interest on the national debt passed $1 trillion…
In a Nov. 6 letter to Portland’s State Senators and Representatives, Mayor Kate Snyder requested the lawmakers’ assistance in identifying…
Independent 2024 presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was confronted by a pro-Palestine heckler calling for a ceasefire between Israel…
The Sanford City Council is considering eliminating two polling locations in future elections, a move Republicans say will disproportionately inconvenience…
The Maine Republican Party announced Thursday that they will nullify the ranked-choice voting process for the upcoming 2024 GOP Presidential…
U.S. Senators from Maine Susan Collins and Angus King announced Wednesday that the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the…
U.S. Congressman from Maine’s 2nd District Jared Golden was one of 22 House Democrats to vote Tuesday in favor of…
Mainers resoundingly voted to approve a citizens’ initiative instituting an automotive “right to repair” in the state in Tuesday’s elections.…
Maine’s electrical utilities will not be seized by the state and placed under the control of a quasi-governmental body following…
The City of Portland has elected City Councilor Mark Dion to be their new mayor. After no candidate crossed the…
The number of Chinese nationals entering the U.S. illegally across the southern border has exploded this year, according to data…
Illegal Chinese marijuana grows have taken over much of rural Maine. The government is either incapable — or unwilling –…
Polls have closed, and the results are in. Maine voters have officially rejected the establishment of Pine Tree Power. The…
The federal government worked extensively with Stanford University and other entities to censor American’s speech in the lead-up to the…
The U.S. dollar has lost more than one-fifth of its purchasing power since 2019, according to an email sent Monday…
Mainers will go to the polls Tuesday to make their voices heard on a series of eight ballot questions –…
Draft copies of proposed changes to City of Portland ordinances obtained by the organization “Enough is Enough” show city officials…
Five members of the Maine Chapter of the Democratic Socialists of America were arrested Friday for criminal trespassing after they…
Chipotle and McDonald’s locations in California will be raising their menu prices next year to offset a minimum wage increase…
The Maine Democratic Party was the recipient of $100,000 in donations stemming from notorious fraudster Sam Bankman-Fried’s corrupt FTX cryptocurrency…
Democratic Congressman Jared Golden of Maine’s 2nd District slammed House Republicans Thursday after his proposed amendment to prohibit commercial offshore…
A Connecticut Superior Court judge has overturned the results of the City of Bridgeport’s Democratic mayoral primary election over the…
Mainers’ data privacy is once again set to be a focal point for lawmakers in Augusta. Next Wednesday, members of…
Democratic U.S. Congressman from Maine’s 2nd District Jared Golden joined 31 of his fellow House Democrats Wednesday in voting against…
Republican Maine State Rep. Laurel Libby of Auburn announced Monday that she has submitted a bill proposal for the second…
A Jewish lawyer who has been practicing law in southern Maine since 1979 had his Portland office targeted this weekend…
In a letter to his constituents published Sunday to his “Dear Mainer” Substack, Democratic Congressman from Maine’s 2nd District Jared…
The invisible shield that has always protected the people of Maine from the insanity of modern American life has been…
The day after a mass shooting in Lewiston claimed the lives of 18 people, Democratic U.S. Rep. Jared Golden of…
A city councilor from Maine’s largest city has blamed the single largest shooting of white people in Maine’s modern history…
Wednesday night Lewiston saw the worst mass shooting in Maine’s history. As of Thursday afternoon, the suspect in the murders…
Rep. Mike Johnson (R-LA) was elected as the new Speaker of the House with unanimous support from the Republican caucus.…
Earlier this year, the State Legislature passed one of the least restrictive abortion laws in the nation — as of…
The Maine Ethics Commission voted unanimously Wednesday to take no further action in an investigation into whether Senate President Troy…
House Republicans have nominated Rep. Mike Johnson for the Speakership, making him the caucus’ fourth nominee for the position in…
Republican U.S. Senator from Maine Susan Collins, alongside a bipartisan delegation of Senators, gave remarks at a press conference Sunday…
A Norway man accused of having filed multiple fraudulent loan applications to gain over $240,000 from a pandemic-era loan program…
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) released operational statistics Saturday for fiscal year 2023 showing just over two million total…
The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) announced a draft Wind Energy Area (WEA) on Thursday identifying over 3.5 million…
Municipalities throughout Maine have been struggling to accommodate the state’s rapidly growing refugee and asylum seeker populations — and things…
Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) is officially no longer in the running for Speakership after failing to prevail in three chamber-wide…
A Brunswick pastor preaching outside Portland’s Planned Parenthood abortion clinic Tuesday was told by police that he was violating the…
UPDATE: This story has been updated to include comments from Harold Pachios. The City of Portland’s Committee on Sustainability and…
Gov. Janet Mills declared at a Tuesday afternoon ceremony held at the Blaine House that October is now Domestic Violence…
York County now has plans to spend $45 million in an effort to address Maine’s opioid epidemic through the construction…
Maine State Rep. Ann Fredericks (R-Sanford) has submitted a request for a resolution in the second legislative session that would…
The Maine State Legislature’s Judiciary Committee is scheduled to meet tomorrow to discuss two pieces of data privacy legislation up…
All four members of Maine’s Congressional delegation have issued public statements in recent days concerning Hamas’ attacks on Israel, strongly…
The House GOP caucus has officially nominated Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) for the Speakership over Rep. Austin Scott (R-GA). An…
Maine lawmakers are poised to once again consider increasing the state minimum wage during their next legislative session. This past…
School board meetings have become a source of heated and highly contentious debate in recent years with parents and community…
Charter schools may once again be a topic of discussion in Augusta next year. A bill lifting the enrollment cap…
As the death toll in the ongoing Israel-Palestine conflict continues to rise, the Maine Democratic Socialists of America (Maine DSA)…
Maine State Rep. Katrina Smith (R-Palermo) has requested to introduce a bill in the second legislative session restricting the sale…
Republicans in Washington nominated Rep. Steve Scalise (R-LA) to be the Speaker of the House in a secret ballot vote…
Aidan Kearney, the blogger behind “Turtleboy Daily News,” was arrested Wednesday morning on several counts of witness intimidation and one…
Washington D.C. Attorney General Brian Schwalb has issued subpoenas to the liberal dark money giant Arabella Advisors and its multibillion-dollar…
A Moscow court on Tuesday rejected an appeal of the detention of Wall Street Journal reporter and Bowdoin graduate Evan…
Maine’s three refugee resettlement agencies have been approved to resettle double the amount of refugees in fiscal year 2024 (FY24)…
Parents of Hermon High School students were asked earlier this year to decide whether their student should be allowed access…
Hunter Biden pleaded not guilty to three felony firearm possession charges during his arraignment in a Delaware federal court on…
Most Americans are inclined to trust Republicans over Democrats to effectively deal with the myriad of problems facing the country…
U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) — the longest-serving woman in the United States Senate — has died at the age…
Maine Sen. Angus King and Sen. Shelley Moore Capito (R-W. Va.) earlier this week introduced a bipartisan resolution to designate…
The United States Senate has unanimously reversed course today by officially codifying a business casual dress code days after moving…
Portland business owners and retail workers joined the organization “Enough is Enough” to release a video Thursday drawing attention to…
Job approval ratings for Congress and President Joe Biden remain low ahead of an impending government shutdown, according to polling…
A Sanford man is in stable condition after being stabbed multiple times early Thursday morning by two men who stole…
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced Tuesday that it has taken legal action — alongside a number of state attorneys…
The Daily Caller News Foundation Kate Anderson on September 26, 2023 Almost half of parents turning to homeschooling today say they…
Sam Patten had to survive getting nearly stabbed to death, twice, in order to live long enough to write the…
The new Director of the Maine Center for Disease Control (CDC) Dr. Puthiery Va joined the taxpayer-funded Maine Calling radio…
Canadian Speaker of the House of Commons Anthony Rota issued an apology Sunday for recognizing a 98-year-old Nazi Waffen-SS veteran…
The field for the Republican primary race in Maine’s 2nd Congressional District grew Monday when former NASCAR driver and State…
A school teacher at private school in Maine was fired after he vocally criticized so-called “diversity, equity, and inclusion” programming…
U.S. Sen. Bob Menendez, a Democrat from New Jersey, and his wife were indicted Friday on federal bribery charges for…
In a Tuesday evening debate hosted by CBS 13, Fox 23 and the Bangor Daily News, Portland’s 2023 mayoral candidates…
Boston University announced Wednesday that it is launching an inquiry into Dr. Ibram X. Kendi’s Center for Antiracist Research (CAR)…
Democratic lawmakers from southern Maine are crying foul over public meetings concerning the proposed Pickett Mountain mining project. The Land…
The senior House Republican on the legislative committee that oversees insurance in Maine joined WVOM’s George Hale and Ric Tyler…
Gov. Janet Mills published the following radio address on Wednesday, finally weighing in decisively against a campaign by the Maine…
The United States Climate Alliance — of which Gov. Janet Mills (D) is a co-chair — announced today a new…
Maine school libraries are stocking a children’s graphic novel meant to teach “news literacy” that contains thinly veiled allusions to…
Maine’s unemployment rate has remained relatively consistent these past few months — leveling out around 2.5 percent — according to…
Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas announced Thursday that approximately 472,000 Venezuelan nationals living in the United States…
Joseph Bankman, the father of the infamous former crypto entrepreneur Sam Bankman-Fried, allegedly held a role on the advisory board…
Maine State Rep. Mike Soboleski (R-Phillips) announced Thursday that he is officially entering the Republican primary election for a chance…
As part of the nearly $1 billion in federal funds Maine received from the 2021 American Rescue Plan Act, Gov.…
Maine State Rep. Josh Morris (R-Turner), ranking Republican member of the Legislature’s Insurance Committee, sent a letter Wednesday to Acting…
Three former intelligence officials who falsely tried to discredit the infamous Hunter Biden laptop story as Russian disinformation have been…
Maine Sen. Susan Collins jokingly told reporters Monday that she plans to wear a bikini on the Senate floor in…
Parents in the Maine School Administrative District #51 (MSAD #51) pushed back against pornographic books in the district’s school libraries…
The majority of daily news outlets in Maine are now bankrolled by some of the country’s largest donors to the…
Ignoring the Constitution is Becoming an American Pastime In an effort to address the economically crippling labor shortage in New…
A Texas-based U.S. judge ruled Wednesday against an Obama-era immigration policy meant to prevent the deportation of and provide work…
House lawmakers in Washington D.C. voted 222-190 in favor of a bill blocking states from attempting to eliminate the sale…
Portland’s now-largest homeless encampment at the Marginal Way Park and Ride has approximately doubled in size since August, with a…